Cosmology in (2+1)- Dimensions, Cyclic Models, and Deformations of M2,1

by Victor W. Guillemin

Book Overview

The subject matter of this work is an area of Lorentzian geometry which has not been heretofore much investigated: Do there exist Lorentzian manifolds all of whose light-like geodesics are periodic? A surprising fact is that such manifolds exist in abundance in (2 + 1)-dimensions (though in higher dimensions they are quite rare). This book is concerned with the deformation theory of M2,1 (which furnishes almost all the known examples of these objects)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691085145
• ISBN13: 9780691085142
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"